Materials and Mechanics

2017 ◽  
pp. 45-70
Author(s):  
Kyle G. Gipson ◽  
Robert J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Mechanics Of Materials ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
The University

The Madison Engineering Department is an undergraduate non-discipline specific engineering program at James Madison University. The program acknowledges that future engineers should not be constrained by disciplinary boundaries but demonstrate the ability to adapt and work across disciplines within team atmospheres. The program blends engineering science fundamentals with sustainable design to integrate environmental, social, economic, and technical contexts plus systems thinking while maintaining the university-wide liberal arts core. Madison Engineering is dedicated to the development of engineering versatilists who can readily integrate knowledge from historically different fields of engineering. In support of this development, several courses within the curriculum integrate topics that are traditionally taught separately. This chapter described ENGR 314: Materials & Mechanics, a course that integrates concepts from the traditional content of stand-alone courses (materials science and mechanics of materials) via a semester long design project in which students must incorporate knowledge of both sets of content.

Materials and Mechanics

2015 ◽  
pp. 230-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyle G. Gipson ◽  
Robert J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
Mechanics Of Materials ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
The University

The Madison Engineering Department is an undergraduate non-discipline specific engineering program at James Madison University. The program acknowledges that future engineers should not be constrained by disciplinary boundaries but demonstrate the ability to adapt and work across disciplines within team atmospheres. The program blends engineering science fundamentals with sustainable design to integrate environmental, social, economic, and technical contexts plus systems thinking while maintaining the university-wide liberal arts core. Madison Engineering is dedicated to the development of engineering versatilists who can readily integrate knowledge from historically different fields of engineering. In support of this development, several courses within the curriculum integrate topics that are traditionally taught separately. This chapter described ENGR 314: Materials & Mechanics, a course that integrates concepts from the traditional content of stand-alone courses (materials science and mechanics of materials) via a semester long design project in which students must incorporate knowledge of both sets of content.

Semester-Long Team Project Integrating Materials and Mechanics Concepts

2017 ◽  
pp. 1254-1264
Author(s):  
Kyle G. Gipson ◽  
Robert J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Mechanics Of Materials ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Mechanics Concepts ◽  
The University

The Madison Engineering Department is an undergraduate non-discipline specific engineering program. The program maintains the university-wide liberal arts core and blends engineering science fundamentals with sustainable design to integrate environmental, social, economic, and technical contexts plus systems thinking within the academic experience. Madison Engineering is dedicated to the development of engineering versatilists who can readily integrate knowledge from historically different fields of engineering. In support of this development, several courses within the curriculum integrate topics to provide space for future engineers to not be constrained by disciplinary boundaries but demonstrate the ability to adapt and work across disciplines within team atmospheres. The focus of this paper is on a course project that integrates concepts from the traditional content of stand-alone courses (materials science and mechanics of materials) via a semester long design project in which students must incorporate knowledge of both sets of content.

Semester-Long Team Project Integrating Materials and Mechanics Concepts

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Kyle G. Gipson ◽  
Robert J. Prins
Keyword(s):  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Mechanics Of Materials ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Team Project ◽  
Mechanics Concepts ◽  
The University

The Madison Engineering Department is an undergraduate non-discipline specific engineering program. The program maintains the university-wide liberal arts core and blends engineering science fundamentals with sustainable design to integrate environmental, social, economic, and technical contexts plus systems thinking within the academic experience. Madison Engineering is dedicated to the development of engineering versatilists who can readily integrate knowledge from historically different fields of engineering. In support of this development, several courses within the curriculum integrate topics to provide space for future engineers to not be constrained by disciplinary boundaries but demonstrate the ability to adapt and work across disciplines within team atmospheres. The focus of this paper is on a course project that integrates concepts from the traditional content of stand-alone courses (materials science and mechanics of materials) via a semester long design project in which students must incorporate knowledge of both sets of content.

Integrating Sustainable Design and Systems Thinking throughout an Engineering Curriculum

2014 ◽  
pp. 136-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Nagel ◽  
Kyle G. Gipson ◽  
Adebayo Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Content Integration ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Department

The Madison Engineering Department was founded on the recognition that engineers are no longer constrained to disciplinary boundaries, and instead, must work across disciplines as members of global communities and multidisciplinary teams. The program offers a single undergraduate engineering degree that focuses on sustainable design and systems thinking. Since the inaugural class started in 2008, the faculty has been striving to integrate environmental, social, economic, and technical contexts of sustainable design and systems thinking as common curricular threads. This chapter discusses courses taken by students freshman through senior year to illustrate how content integration, developmental instruction, and a problem-based learning framework are used in Madison Engineering Department to purposefully transition students through Bloom's levels from knowing and thinking to simulating and doing to quantifying and applying with the goal of training students able to understand systems holistically, describe and analyze tradeoffs, understand resultant perturbations, and design effective, sustainable solutions.

The Integration of Sustainability, Systems, and Engineering Design in the Engineering Curriculum at James Madison University

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Nagel ◽  
Olga Pierrakos ◽  
Eric C. Pappas ◽  
Adebayo Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
James Madison ◽  
Sustainable Engineering ◽  
Curriculum And Pedagogy ◽  
Design Systems ◽  
Engineering Training

In order for our future engineers to be able to work toward a sustainable future, they must be versed not only in sustainable engineering but also in engineering design. An engineering education must train our future engineers to think flexibly and to be adaptive as it is unlikely that their future will have them working in one domain. They must, instead, be versatilists. The School of Engineering at James Madison University has been developed from the ground up to provide this general engineering training with an emphasis on engineering design, systems thinking, and sustainability. Students take courses in math and science, business and liberal arts, engineering science, sustainability, and design. In this paper, we discuss how sustainability is taught in a multi-context perspective through the School’s curriculum and pedagogy. We do not mean to present the School’s approach as an all or nothing model, but instead as a collection of approaches of which hopefully one or more may be appropriate at another university.

scholarly journals Computer Network Laboratory for Microscopy Education at the Materials Science and Engineering Department, The University of Arizona

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-15
Author(s):  
Supapan Seraphin ◽  
Gary W. Chandler ◽  
Michelle S. Switala
Keyword(s):  
Materials Science ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Computer Software ◽  
First Year ◽  
Scientific Content ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Electron Microscopes ◽  
Interactive Computer Software ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopes ◽  
The University

We report here on the first year of development of a novel teaching facility which incorporates new techniques designed to reach new audiences without diluting subject content. Interactive computer software coupled with rich scientific content of microscopic images provides a unique opportunity to help students learn science and technology, the laboratory is comprised of twenty student workstations networked to various microscopes, thus expanding the number of students capable of "hands-on" data acquisition and analysis by twenty times. Two scanning electron microscopes (SEM), a transmission electron microscope (TEM), and several light microscopes (LM) are interfaced through a server to the workstations.

Integrating Sustainable Design and Systems Thinking throughout an Engineering Curriculum

2017 ◽  
pp. 1607-1624
Author(s):  
Robert L. Nagel ◽  
Kyle G. Gipson ◽  
Adebayo Ogundipe
Keyword(s):  
Systems Thinking ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Multidisciplinary Teams ◽  
Senior Year ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Content Integration ◽  
Learning Framework ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Engineering Department

The Madison Engineering Department was founded on the recognition that engineers are no longer constrained to disciplinary boundaries, and instead, must work across disciplines as members of global communities and multidisciplinary teams. The program offers a single undergraduate engineering degree that focuses on sustainable design and systems thinking. Since the inaugural class started in 2008, the faculty has been striving to integrate environmental, social, economic, and technical contexts of sustainable design and systems thinking as common curricular threads. This chapter discusses courses taken by students freshman through senior year to illustrate how content integration, developmental instruction, and a problem-based learning framework are used in Madison Engineering Department to purposefully transition students through Bloom's levels from knowing and thinking to simulating and doing to quantifying and applying with the goal of training students able to understand systems holistically, describe and analyze tradeoffs, understand resultant perturbations, and design effective, sustainable solutions.

An Interdisciplinary Approach for Involving Undergraduates in the Materials Science and Engineering Program

2000 ◽  
Vol 632 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reinhard Bruch ◽  
Natalia Afanasyeva ◽  
Leslie Welser ◽  
Satya Gummuluri ◽  
Stan Showers ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
History Of ◽  
Materials Science And Engineering ◽  
Physics Department ◽  
The University

ABSTRACTThe University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) Physics Department has a successful history of involving undergraduate students in interdisciplinary research, including the fields of materials science and engineering. The group directed by Prof. Reinhard Bruch has given a number of undergraduates the opportunity to work on professional-level research projects early in their career development. In our Physics Department at UNR, it is common to have a high percentage of undergraduates involved in research projects. Therefore, we suggest that the Materials Science and Engineering Program could explore the potential opportunity for spawning inter-disciplinary research programs involving undergraduates.

Biomaterials Activities at the University of Liverpool

1981 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
D F Williams
Keyword(s):  
Joint Venture ◽  
Materials Science ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Science Department ◽  
Dental Surgery ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The University

Research on biomaterials has been undertaken at the University of Liverpool for the last ten years since the establishment of a Bioengineering Unit in 1969. During recent years involvment in biomaterials research has increased and a considerably greater co-operative effort has developed, leading to the formation of a Centre for Biomaterials Research in 1978. Three different departments are represented in this joint venture, the Department of Dental Sciences within the School of Dental Surgery, the Bioengineering Unit within the Faculty of Medicine and the Metallurgy and Materials Science Department withing the Faculty of Engineering Science. The biomaterials activities of these three departments, which in each case represent one part of the total research activities of that department are directed by Dr D. F. Williams, Mr D. Annis and Professor D. Hull respectively. Each department naturally has its own area of expertise and joint programmes of work are undertaken to maximize this expertise and the facilities that are available.

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